Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will the current state of play effect Bush in November? "A lot depends on whether the peace process is perceived as actually moving," says Rabbi Daniel Syme of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. "In Bush's favor is the fact that for the first time, speedy progress is in everyone's interest. Israel's economy desperately needs the loan guarantees, so Rabin will do what he must to get them. The Arabs, as the saying goes, have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity, but they clearly want to help Bush too." That's right, says a Saudi...
Wisse, who contributes regularly to the Canadian Jewish News and has been a frequent contributor to Commentary magazine, is a "very, very" outspoken conservative in American and Israeli politics, said Rabbi Reuben Poupko of Montreal's Beth Israel Beth Aaron congregation...
...Hizballah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. So far, 24 people have been killed and 59 wounded. Fighting began after guerrillas attacked Israel's "security zone" inside the Lebanese border. Arab assailants meanwhile stabbed two Israelis to death, a 15-year-old schoolgirl near Tel Aviv and a rabbi in the Gaza Strip. Both murders sparked anti-Arab riots by Israelis. Defense Minister Moshe Arens ordered the Strip sealed off, restricting 700,000 Palestinians to the area...
...Harvard's Jewish community, comprised of Reform, Orthodox and three different Conservative branches, today accounts for another 25 percent of undergraduates, according to Hillel acting Director Rabbi Sally R. Finestone...
...pivotal figure in shaping the new production was director Zaks, 45, who went off to college intending to be a rabbi until he happened upon a student production of Wonderful Town and felt overwhelmed by "the explosion of color and light and sound." His revivals have ranged from an acidulous The Front Page to a pixilated Anything Goes; his new works have varied from the farcical Lend Me a Tenor to the philosophical Six Degrees of Separation. What all Zaks shows have in common is hurtling energy, utter clarity and stylishness that somehow never intrude on the honesty...